25 Best Places to Find a Freelancer
This list below covers most popular websites and forums where you can find freelancers and small to midsized providers for your development projects. This is a running list which I intent to update on an ongoing basis. If you know of a site, directory or service with is worth including please comment on the page and I include in the list, feel free also email me at krym2000-po @ yahoo . com as well.
| Site | PR | Alexa | Brief Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| www.99designs.com | 7 | 2,614 | 99designs is one of the top marketplaces for crowdsourced graphic design. As of June ’10 it connects 70,406 passionate designers from around the globe with small businesses who need design projects completed. |
| www.altpick.com | 5 | 330,668 | In 1991 The Alternative Pick was founded to provide creative professionals with a vehicle to find the freshest illustrators, photographers and designers in the commercial art industry. |
www.auctionsforbusiness.com |
3 | 348,035 | Auctions for Business has been designed, implemented, maintained and owned by Arcane Systems. Arcane Systems is a company located in Athens, Greece and is mainly involved with providing IT and Networking Solutions and Consultancy for Telecom Providers and private Corporations. |
| www.codelance.com | 4 | 2,388,065 | CodeLance offeres a network of over 15,000 IT professionals. Started in 2001 the company strives to differentiate itself by building a community of high quality professionals who offer expert programming, web design and SEO at affordable rates. CodeLance claims to be a marketplace for software buyers and developers large enough to be of value to both parties but small enough to provide individual attention to every single member during the project bidding process. |
| www.coroflot.com | 6 | 7,804 | Coroflot claims to be the largest, most established, most diverse pool of professional creative portfolios in the world. Since going live in 1998, Coroflot has grown to host over 1.2 million images of creative work, from the portfolios of over 120,000 creative professionals and students from nearly every country on earth. Coroflot users are industrial, graphic, fashion, interior, textile and interaction designers; 3D modeling and rendering specialists; architects, illustrators, art directors, design managers, and dozens of other disciplines. Coroflot’s job board claims to be the largest and most active site on the internet specifically targeted at hiring designers and other creative professionals. |
| www.cityitjobs.net | 3 | 5,641,319 | CityITjobs is a Services Marketplace. Employers / Buyers can search Resumes and find talent to do their projects or to fill full or part-time positions. Employers / Buyers post the job as a project. |
| www.craigslist.org | 7 | 37 | Oh should I say anything here? |
| www.creativeheads.net | 5 | 228,238 | CreativeHeads.net is the recruitment software solution for professionals in the Video Game, Animation, TV & Film, and 3D Technology & Software Tools industries whether they be Employers searching for Jobseekers or Jobseekers looking to secure the “right” job. |
| www.designcrowd.com | 3 | 81,926 | A forum with access to limited number of freelance designers and developers – Freelance Web Design Jobs – Design Crowd – a job forum run by freelancers for freelancers. |
| www.elance.com | 6 | 628 | Elance is an online workplace where businesses find and hire people “on demand” to get work done quickly and cost effectively. Founded in 1999, Elance was established to help small businesses easily and efficiently hire freelance talent. Today, Elance is the leading workplace for hiring and working on demand. Elance is privately-held and headquartered in Mountain View, California. |
| www.eufreelance.com | 4 | 39,800 | EUFreelance.com is owned by Ignition Networks Pty. Limited, trading as EUFreelance (ACN 134 845 748), with license from its wholly owned subsidiary, Plendo Pte Limited (Singapore). EUFreelance.com is growing rapidly. Our freelancers and employers come from more than 234 countries and regions from around the world. |
| www.freelance.com | 6 | 71,879 | Freelance.com provides the fastest and most efficient means of identifying qualified professionals for project based needs or long-term activities anywhere in the world, anytime. |
| www.freelancerneeded.com | 8 | 0 | FreelancerNeeded.com claims to be the Fastest and Easiest Way to Outsource Your Projects to Experts Who Can Get the Job Done… Maybe one day, personally I think this site is just Work in Progress… |
| www.freelanceswitch.com | 6 | 8,818 | FreelanceSwitch is a site for freelancers. It offers a great access to the resources through its Job Board. |
| www.Freelancers2work.com | 1 | 2,290,016 | Companies of any size can use our web services. Outsourcing is hiring an outside organization to perform services such as information processing and applications development. Find freelance programmers, web designers, copywriters and translators. Web Development doesn’t have to be expensive |
| www.getacoder.com | 5 | 10,512 | GetACoder claims to be a leading Global Services Marketplace doing business in more than 200 countries. GetACoder strives to make outsourcing to any part of the world an easy task. Using GetACoder supposedly offers saving as much as 60% over traditional outsourcing, I doubt that it includes other companies in this list. |
| www.GetAFreelancer.com | 6 | 844 | GetAFreelancer.com claims to be one of the largest sites of its kind. It indeed earned a decent reputation in freelancing community. You can find a large number of freelance programmers, web designers, copywriters and translators at that site. |
| www.gofreelance.com | 4 | 39,739 | Since 1998, GoFreelance has been connecting freelance professionals with companies that need jobs done. From graphic design and web development, to programming, copywriting, article writing and much more, thousands of projects have been completed through our system. |
| www.guru.com | 7 | 3,104s | Guru.com claims to be the world’s largest online marketplace for freelance talent. Through their service, employers find freelance and contract talent locally, nationally, or globally. Created in August of 2000, Guru.com’s web-based marketplace directly connects businesses with over 629,000 professionals who specialize in over 160 professional categories including: website design, programming, graphic design, business consulting, and administrative support. |
| www.ifreelance.com | 5 | 18,088 | iFreelance.com claims to be the easiest and most effective way for businesses to connect with talented freelance professionals from around the world. True or not it offers a large variety of talent – from artists and photographers to programmers and writers. iFreelance.com also claims that by outsourcing through them businesses typically get projects done in half the time at half the cost. |
| www.ITMatchOnline.com | 2 | 171,544 | ITMatchOnline (A division of Hi-Tech Outsourcing (P) Ltd) is a privately owned India based corporation has been in business for over 4 years. At a cursory look it seems far behind competition in all aspect of the service. |
| www.mondayworks.com | 2 | 786,420 | Monday Works appears to be a German version of freelancer market place. It appears to be a fairly early stage site yet it has a lot of providers. For example search on “java” returns ~200; |
| www.mturk.com | 6 | 20,354 | he Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is one of the suite of Amazon Web Services, a crowdsourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do. |
| www.odesk.com | 6 | 709 | oDesk enables buyers to hire, manage (that’s different from many other similar services), and pay technology service providers from around the world. The service is fairly well organized, fast and reasonably priced – that’s if you are prepared to pay fees. Last time I looked at it the brokerage fees were 10% of the contract. |
| www.online-writing-jobs.com | 5 | 56,499 | Online-Writing-Jobs.com strives to offer its visitors the many advantages of Internet technology and to provide an interactive and personalized experience |
| www.offshorexperts.com or http://www.sourceexperts.com/ |
4 | 104,359 | A large Directory of Global Outsourcing Service Providers. www.offshorexperts.com (now www.sourceexperts.com) claims to have a network with over 20,000 Outsourcing Experts from Around the World that covers technology and many other areas, such as call centers, creative services, BPO, etc. |
www.Outsourcing.org |
4 | 128,786 | Outsourcing.org is a Web-based business directory providing information and free tools for suppliers and buyers of outsourcing services. We are one of the Internet’s most trusted and respected outsourcing sites serving a large and growing community of business users. |
| www.poewar.com | 3 | 97,716 | Poewar is the blog of John Hewitt. It has also been called the Writer’s Resource Center, but that name is unofficial now. In one form or another, the site has bee a part of the web since 1993. The blog provides information for writers on many subjects. It may also discuss a variety of other topics. I will write about what I want to write about. The blog provides access to freelancing writer resources through its extensive job board. |
www.programmermeetdesigner.com |
4 | 228,926 | A somewhat unique concept – This site was created to unite programmers and designers because rarely is a person good at both programming and designing. PMD helps programmers and designers partner up to make websites and web applications that look and work great. Now content writers and entrepreneurs can also join up to find people to work with. |
| www.projectlance.com | 2 | 1,936,996 | ProjectLance is a competitive environment for Service Providers and Freelancers, because of this you can save anywhere from 5-15% or more by using ProjectLance to connect you to qualified professionals. |
| www.peopleperhour.com | 4 | 17,712 | PeoplePerHour connects you with a vibrant community of 38714 independent, reliable service providers (Freelancers) across 150 countries available to work for you at the click of a button. It’s like having a virtual, on-demand, global workforce at your fingertips that you can scale up or down as you need, giving you the flexibility to expand your business cost-effectively. |
| www.projects2bid.com | 1 | 1,570,224 | Projects to Bid is a website where experienced freelance programmers can find an abundance of projects throughout the world to bid on. These are typically projects that Evoltron as a company would have received. Due to the high demand, we charged our programming staff with creating a community driven website to help fill the gap between projects and our ability them. Although we will not cannibalize the projects that are posted here, please note that Evoltron as a company will also from time to time bid on projects posted here. As such you are encouraged to be active on the site. |
| www.rdba.net | 1 | 0 | RDBA.NET is a promising site that aims to provide independent rating of IT providers. It includes a large number of providers in categories such as remote DBA services, IT services, outsourcing, etc. |
| www.rentcoder.com | 2,958,022 | www.rentcoder.com represents a growing community of developers. It seems to offer some basic services and is inexpensive (free for buyer and small monthly fee for | |
| www.rentacoder.com | 6 | 1,908 | The site has about 20,000 registered buyers. When you get a project done through Rentacoder you put the entire project fees into an escrow account. You don’t release the fees until the project is complete. This is good because it gives reassurance to the coder that they are going to pay you |
| www.RequestFill.com | 4 | 3,402,150 | RequestFill.com claims to be the tech industry’s first lead generation platform based on multi-dimensional search engine. The site states that this new search capability goes beyond traditional keyword search engines and matches technology executives with IT service providers that most closely align with their defined project needs. |
| www.scriptlance.com | 5 | 3,024 | Scriptlance.com looks like a fairly busy site with focus on programming. It’s motto is connecting businesses with programmers and it claims to have thousands of professionals and over 200 projects daily. |
| www.sologig.com | 7 | 32,536 | Sologig is the preeminent resource to find full-time and part-time contract and consulting opportunities. Employers are searching Sologig for experienced professionals across various industries including IT, Healthcare, Engineering, Accounting, Sales & Marketing, etc. |
| www.SoftwareProjects.com | 4 | 44,292 | It’s a great alternative to chasing offshore freelancers. These guys are us based. Their best feature is – you get a quote within hours and there are no bidding games. They’re more expensive than RAC and Elance. |
| www.TheFreelanceNation.com | 3 | 1,003,921 | The Freelance Nation is a network of sites designed to enhance the interaction between companies looking for contract services and those who provide them. |
| www.thesuperlancers.com | 1 | 7,036,577 | TheSuperlancers is a Freelance Marketplace. Here, you can find web designers, programmers, article writers, marketers, graphic designers, Python gurus, or even help with setting up your web server. Suggested by Jay — Tons of cheap coders and designers, marketers, writers, whatever, but more programmers than projects for now so it’s probably a good time to fish for new coders and designers. I do. ;) |
| www.webdesigners123.com | 4 | 306,680 | WebDesigners123.com connects freelance web designers (graphic designers, php programmers, etc.) with webmasters that need custom website design or custom programming done for their websites. |
| www.writerlance.com | 3 | 434,600 | Freelancing market place focusing on writers. |
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Hi-
I think I’d add TheSuperlancers to your list here. I’d like to see a list of places you use, this is my main one besides Project4Hire.
Anyway, here’s that one you missed: http://www.thesuperlancers.com
Tons of cheap coders and designers, markerters, writers, whatever, but more programmers than projects for now so it’s probably a good time to fish for new coders and designers. I do. ;)
Hope that helps!
Jay
Comment by Jay | March 9, 2009
Thank Jay, just added the site to the list. Appreciate the help! nick
Comment by Nick Krym | March 10, 2009
The only site I have used successfully is Guru.com. I have been able to find quality people rather easily.
Comment by Simon | March 10, 2009
Thanks Simon, my experience with Guru has been quite positive as well. nick
Comment by Nick Krym | March 10, 2009
i think scriptlance.com is missed
Comment by Free Online Games | March 12, 2009
Great compendium, Nick. I like the idea of providing a summary description for each site.
Comment by Abbas | March 12, 2009
Thanks Abbas, i wish WP supported user rating / comments for entries. But the only way to get there is hosting your own version + mods.
Comment by Nick Krym | March 12, 2009
Thanks! It is missing indeed, I will add it shortly.
Comment by Nick Krym | March 12, 2009
Hi Nick,
Thanks for pointing me to this article, it’s good to know what is out there.
I think http://www.expertMagnet.com differs from most of the others by having a reverse auction structure, where buyers can post a detailed request on what they need, and vendors can reply to that with a tailored response.
Additionally, it focuses only on the Tertiary industry (the ‘knowledge economy’), and avoids the Secondary industry (manufacturing), where alibaba.com has a fairly strong foothold.
Regards,
Mark
Comment by Mark Bubner | March 18, 2009
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add one more but they allow only Enterprises to dealt with – http://www.outsourcingdeals.com and it is not just IT.
Comment by Sanjay Verma | September 3, 2009
Nick:
Nicely collated list…thank you so much.
BR,
Manu
Comment by Manu | September 4, 2009
Hi, I only knew about elance and getafreelancer. List is great. I have also heard that there are country-specific sites that are like local versions of craigslist where people can post jobs and get help. Certain countries have a stronger outsource/free lance community than others.
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Hi
This is a great list…. I want to add the http://www.auctionsforbusiness.com/ which has a number of freelance projects posted..
thx
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Hi Nick,
Just come across this list via Guru->Twitter…Thanks for taking the time to compile it.
Would it be possible to add our site http://www.theragtrader.com ?
We have a similar model to Guru, etc, but only focus on the fashion industry. The site is run by people with a lot of experience working within fashion so we offer a more tailored experience (no pun intended!).
Comment by Steven | February 24, 2010
will do; thanks for the note
Comment by Nick Krym | February 24, 2010
Hi Nick,
Found your site looking for “easy outsourcing” and have been finding a lot of great content here. Might I suggest my company for your list: easyoutsource.com is new (just launched about 3 months ago) and focuses on the Philippines. We’re a good place to find bloggers, WordPress programmers, and general personal assistance.
Comment by Matt | February 28, 2010
will do; best of luck; nick
Comment by Nick Krym | March 2, 2010
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Hi Nick,
Thanks for compiling this list, there are a hell of a lot of great sites in the list. I would like to submit our website for your consideration – http://www.99designs.com, We are the biggest crowdsourcing community online (By contests, Alexa and other metrics)
Hope you keep up the good work, the easier it is for people to find these resources, the better the industry as a whole becomes.
Thanks,
Kristen
Comment by Kristen | May 3, 2010
Will do, thanks for submit Kristen
Comment by Nick Krym | May 4, 2010
I have been working mturk.com and I am looking for more data entry if you know of any could you please list more thanks.
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